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Heart bypass-mental decline link

...ed into the aorta during the procedure. The study compared results in heart-lung machine patients with those put on an "off-pump" device that only partially immobilizes the heart. Off-pump patients had less mental decline than heart-lung patients, but the differences became negligible a year after surgery. ...

Lack of solar radiation causes cancer

...rsity has analysed cancer rates in New England and compared them to those in the Southern states. He says that cancer rates are inversely related to UV-B exposure, for cancers of the breast, colon, ovary, oesophagus, and stomach. The main reason is that sunlight initiates production of vitamin D, whose anti-c...

Defibrillators saving lives but price is an issue

...nths, defibrillators cut the risk of death by 31%, compared with drug therapy. David Faxon, president of the American Heart Association, called the device's benefit "substantial," but added, "It's too soon to make sweeping recommendations without taking into account the increased costs and complications."...

Statins reduce risks for angioplasty patients

...uld reduce the risk of these complications by 30%, compared with patients taking a placebo. The risk reduced by 40% in patients with more than one clogged artery, and by 45% in patients with diabetes. None of the patients had previously taken the drugs, called statins, and all of them had had their first angi...

Gastrointestinal Complaint to be dealt Psychologically

...ne and a half times more likely to have depression compared to the general population....

Fluoride proves effective against fractures

...n in new or recurrent fractures in the study group compared with the control group....

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...duration of diarrhoea by two thirds of a day, when compared with an inactive placebo treatment. No side effects were observed. Whether the same benefits would result from consumption of store-bought yogurt containing Lactobacillus remains unclear. But some yogurts on the market may not contain enough of the b...

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...ely few drugs have been developed that can even be compared to the efficacy, ease of use, and price of aspirin...o significant further reduction in vascular events compared with aspirin alone....

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...regnancy. They found 56 who had pre-eclampsia, and compared their tests to 90 women who did not. The pre-eclampsia patients had unusually low levels of a protein called SHBG or sex hormone binding globulin in early pregnancy. The protein is associated with insulin resistance, a condition that can...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...bears a warning about possible liver damage, Wolfe compared the two. The FDA has six times more reports of liv... called Stevens-Johnson syndrome among Arava users compared with methotrexate, he said....

Watching television for long hours could lead to agressiveness

...on a day consigned aggressive acts in later years, compared with 24% of those who watched between one and three hours, and 30% of those who watched more than three hours a day. This study is being disputed by British experts....

Women benefit from consuming fish

...mes a week cut their risk of heart disease by 32%, compared with women rarely ate fish. Women who ate fish five or more times weekly reduced their risk 36%. Past studies showed similar benefits for men, but this was the first to look specifically at the effect in women. A study last year found that women who ...

Oestrogen to help mental health

...ogen skin patches and risperidone for a month. She compared her results with a control group of 16 women just receiving risperidone and found those taking oestrogen as well had fewer symptoms. "Several patients in the oestrogen group went from having terrible voices and hallucinations to that subsiding over...

Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen

...y had a two to three times greater increase in HDL compared to women who did not have this variant of the gene. Having high HDL should decrease the risk of heart disease although it is not yet known whether the current findings will mean fewer heart attacks for these women. The study may explain why previou...

Fish Oil Fights Arrhythmias, Sudden Death

...he lower mortality rate for the n-3 PUFA patients, compared with patients who got a placebo, resulted largely from a 55% reduction in sudden cardiac deaths at 4 months follow-up. The analysis also shows that the lifesaving benefit of n-3 PUFA is likely due to reducing episodes of potentially fatal irregular h...

Treadmill test displays hidden heart disease

...were about twice as likely to die of heart disease compared to those with normal results. Many of these people had high cholesterol, but no other signs of heart disease. The researchers suggest that the treadmill test could be a useful addition to the standard battery of tests for heart disease....

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

... many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal gro...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...od// were significantly lower while having measles compared to HIV-infected children who did not have measles....m the hospital, and again 2 month later. They were compared with samples taken from HIV-infected children who did not have measles or other illnesses and with s...

Young women prone to heart attack

... of the female patients had died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had ... dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between sex and a...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...eloped breast cancer. Hormones in their blood were compared with the hormones of 1,567 women who were the same age when blood was donated as the women who developed breast cancer. The results are highly statistically significant and were not altered when the researchers adjusted for established risk factors...

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